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(1)The Secretary of State may by order provide for any services to which, in his opinion, subsection (3) applies to be provided not by the staff of local probation boards but by others under arrangements made with the boards.
(2)The order may provide that only the Secretary of State, or an organisation or individual of a description specified in the order, may provide the services.
(3)This subsection applies to services—
(a)which are required by local probation boards in connection with the exercise of their functions, but
(b)which, with a view to obtaining better value for money or to improving the standard of the services or the efficiency of their provision, are better provided by persons other than the staff of local probation boards.